Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Events

The New York Times publishes the first movie review, a report on D.W. Griffith'sPippa Passes.

Serge Diaghilev opens the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, which begins the era of modern ballet and his 20-year reign as ballet's leading figure. Mikhail
Fokine, Diaghilev's choreographer, is considered the most influential choreographer of the 20th century.

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry:Wilhelm Ostwald (Germany), for work on catalysis and investigations into chemical equilibrium and reaction rates

Physics:Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) and Ferdinand Braun (Germany), for development of wireless